17th AnnuAl GenerAl MeetinG Date: Time: Venue: Thursday‚ 24 June 2010 10.00 a.m. AirAsia Academy Lot PT 25B Jalan KLIA S5 Southern Support Zone KLIA‚ 64000 Sepang Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia Notice of Annual General Meeting page 151 19.1% Truly ASEAN 2009 saw AirAsia Berhad (“AirAsia”) maintain its strong growth trajectory despite being a challenging year for the aviation industry. Underpinning our growth is our increasing penetration of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
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of the specific threats and opportunities confronted by AirAsia besides that‚ this analysis also helps to identify AirAsia’s competitive strategy and analyse how the strategy is implemented to gain competitive advantage. Background on AirAsia AirAsia was set up by Dato’ Tony Fernandes in 2001. In December 2001‚ Fernandes and his partners set up Tune Air Sdn Bhd (Tune Air)‚ an airline holding company then bought over AirAsia. Now‚ AirAsia has become one of the most successful airlines in the Southeast
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MALAYSIA Airlines (MAS) has admitted that it is tough fighting a low-cost carrier (LCC). It has decided to use its wholly owned unit‚ Firefly‚ to take on AirAsia. Firefly will turn into a true blue LCC and use jets in the attack. On Monday‚ Firefly said it would fly commercial jets for domestic routes and begin with crossover routes‚ e.g. Kota Kinabalu and Kuching‚ on Jan 15. Asean will be its next stop. Its B737-800s will take off from KL International Airport (KLIA). Firefly wants to have
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AIR ASIA AIRLINES COMPANY COMPANY BACKGROUND AirAsia was established by a Malaysian conglomerate in 1993 and commenced operations in 1996. In 2001‚ due to the airline heavily in debt‚ AirAsia was bought by Tony Fernandes of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd from DRB-Hicom. Tony took up the RM40million debt as part of the purchase. In 2002‚ AirAsia generates a profit and launching new routes from its hub in Kuala Lumpur. In 2003‚ the airline opened a second hub at Senai International Airport‚ Johor Bahru and launched
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Man‚ 2005) Welcome to AirAsia! AirAsia Berhad (AirAsia) is a one of the public listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia in November 2004.
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- Who is Tony Fernandes? Malaysian entrepreneur and the founder of Tune Air Sdn.Bhd. Introduced the first budget no frills airline‚ AirAsia‚ to Malaysians with the tagline “Now everyone can fly” Why we chose him? Flying to over 65 destinations in more than 20 different countries. Their revenues have tripled since 2007 taking in 3‚948 million Malaysian Ringgit in 2010. Built a work force and corporate structure that would reflect his own personality Leadership
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budget no-frills airline. However‚ his application for a license from the Malaysian government was rejected. [edit] Launching AirAsia It was through Datuk Pahamin A. Rejab‚ the former secretary-general of the Malaysian Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry that Fernandes got to meet up with the then Prime Minister‚ Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in October 2001. AirAsia‚ the heavily-indebted subsidiary of the Malaysian government-owned conglomerate‚ DRB-Hicom‚ was losing money speedily. Instead
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Blue Ocean of Airasia: introduction Blue oceans might provide profitable high-growth for companies with new competitive advantages. Many companies over the worldhi have created blue oceans but these blue oceans only remain in a short periods and quickly become red oceans. Kim and Maugne claimed in their book that in order to have sustainable competition advantages‚ blue oceans should be different attached by low cost. However‚ the fact shows that innovations are expensive so it is difficult to
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Analysis Strengths The achievement that AirAsia received in 2012 is the world’s best low cost airline (AirAsia Berhad‚ 2013). The strength of AirAsia is that‚ they are leading low cost airline in today’s world and have good company strategic management with a successful story in the airplane industry. Their operational strategy that they have formulated at the beginning is consistent with their company’s objectives and was well conducted. Due to this‚ AirAsia able to create strong brand equity and
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Introduction of AirAsia In Malaysia‚ there are 3 main airlines which are Malaysian Airline (MAS)‚ AirAsia‚ and Firefly. AirAsia Berhad is starting its operation in November 2004‚ which is listed on the main board of Bursa Malaysia. It start developing a low cost airline model (LCC) in Asia since 2001‚ it has grown from a domestic flight in Malaysia for more than 55 destinations served for 5 leading airline hub in Malaysia which are Thai AirAsia‚ Indonesia AirAsia‚ Philippines AirAsia and Japan AirAsia. AirAsia
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